- To get square with
- Square Square (skw[^a]r), a.
1. (Geom.) Having four equal sides and four right angles; as,
a square figure.
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2. Forming a right angle; as, a square corner. [1913 Webster]
3. Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame. [1913 Webster]
4. Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just. [1913 Webster]
She's a most triumphant lady, if report be square to her. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
5. Rendering equal justice; exact; fair; honest; as, square dealing. [1913 Webster]
6. Even; leaving no balance; as, to make or leave the accounts square. [1913 Webster]
7. Leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous. [1913 Webster]
By Heaven, square eaters. More meat, I say. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
8. (Naut.) At right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; -- said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced. [1913 Webster]
Note: Square is often used in self-explaining compounds or combinations, as in square-built, square-cornered, square-cut, square-nosed, etc. [1913 Webster]
{Square foot}, an area equal to that of a square the sides of which are twelve inches; 144 square inches.
{Square knot}, a knot in which the terminal and standing parts are parallel to each other; a reef knot. See Illust. under {Knot}.
{Square measure}, the measure of a superficies or surface which depends on the length and breadth taken conjointly. The units of square measure are squares whose sides are the linear measures; as, square inches, square feet, square meters, etc.
{Square number}. See {Square}, n., 6.
{Square root of a number} or {Square root of a quantity} (Math.), that number or quantity which, multiplied by itself, produces the given number or quantity.
{Square sail} (Naut.), a four-sided sail extended upon a yard suspended by the middle; sometimes, the foresail of a schooner set upon a yard; also, a cutter's or sloop's sail boomed out. See Illust. of {Sail}.
{Square stern} (Naut.), a stern having a transom and joining the counter timbers at an angle, as distinguished from a round stern, which has no transom.
{Three-square}, {Five-square}, etc., having three, five, etc., equal sides; as, a three-square file.
{To get square with}, to get even with; to pay off. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.